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"So long as democracy exists... totalitarianism is in deadly danger."
First published in Searchlight Books, 19 February 1941
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"Every nationalist is haunted by the belief that the past can be altered."
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"History is written by the winners."
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"By retaining one’s childhood love of such things as trees, fishes, butterflies and [...] toads, one makes a peaceful and decent future a…
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"About 4 or perhaps 6 should make a pair of bedroom slippers."
George Orwell's diary, 12 August 1946
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"Very few modern people would bother to write down such trifles."
Manchester Evening News, 28 July 1944
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"There are disgusting scenes in the Tube stations at night."
Partisan Review, Fall 1944
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"There has been a strong tendency to push these facts out of sight."
Published in The Observer, 16 July 1944
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"The one thing that never arrives is equality."
Review of The Freedom of the Streets by Jack Common
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"There was a certain fitness in this, since her own husband had been vaporized a couple of years earlier."
First published on this day in 1949
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"The average person never buys a new book, except perhaps a Penguin."
First published in Tribune, 2 June 1944
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